What can I do to make this more precise so it wont place anything outside the selected face??

Since you made this in Sketchup I have to give huge props for the work you did. Smooth shapes and details. Exterior design itself is...well, not pretty in my opinion.

Amazing work. What's the render plugin you used? V-ray?

I'm trying to set light to my model but when I start rendering, that area I selected for light is just black. No light at all, it's even more darker than normal. I made new white material for light and double-clicked material and Indigo window shows up, then I select light from the Assign Preset. That's pretty much all I did. What went wrong?

I'm working on now quite of highly detailed model (City block) and my PC won't run it smoothly, so I would like to know some solutions to make it run better, like hiding objects and when I finish*, unhide them. Ofcourse there is that layer function but I don't know how it works, anyone could tell me step-by-step how it works?

***** I'm planning to make City block first into many parts and after everything is done, I put them all together.

Thanks!

Well what about this one then?

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100

Memory: 4GB 667MHz DDR (2x2Gb)

Graphic Card: nVidia GeForce Go 8600M (512 MB)

Those Sony VAIO's are pretty expensive and I don't know any lap top with un-integrated GPU.

@solo said:

Only one peice of advice:

Do not get an integrated video card ... trust me!

Umm...why not? Aren't all Lap Top Graphic Cards integrated?

So...I'm planning to buy Lap Top for my work and it ofcourse it will have to run Sketchup well enough. And this is what I might get:

**HP Pavilion dv9751**
* Processor: AMD Athlon 64x2 TK-57
* Graphic Card: Nvidia GF7150 (integrated)
* Memory: 2GB 667MHz DDR (2 x 1GB)
* Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium

or

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100

Memory: 4GB 667MHz DDR (2x2Gb)

Graphic Card: nVidia GeForce Go 8600M (512 MB)

Could anyone tell me, will it run well enough?
And please answer soon as possible, thanks!

@jomaef said:

I'm having problems with skindigo!
Everytime i run sketchup, a window shows up asking for me to locate a .exe file. When i locate the indigo.exe on my indigo directory, an error message pops up:
"Error Loading File SkIndigo_1_0_9.rb
cannot convert nil into String"
I followed the installation instuctions correctly, and i downloaded skindigo v.1_0_9 and indigo_v0.9.10. What's going on? Any help?
The plugins menu in sketchup doesn't even show up...

PS: My sketchup version is google sketchup and it's not pro...and i use windows vista.

EDIT: Never mind, works now! Just extract stable version and locate .exe in Sketchup.

When 7 is coming anyway?

@tomsdesk said:

In the "camera" pulldown menu you'll find the "standard" flyout menu...there are the "top" and 4 side views (you'll need to turn off "perspective" if you want a true 2d).

Thanks.

How i can set 2D view to my model? I need side and roof views as 2D.

@remus said:

Just restart SU and the plugin should be listed under the 'plugins' menu or the 'tools' menu.

It's not there

@watkins said:

Dear All,

You can change lines to construction lines by using Rick Wilson's xlines.rb, and kind young Rick has made it free.

Smustard(TM) - the Companion to Sketchup(TM) - Plugins and Scripts

List of Smustard plugins and ruby scripts for Sketchup

(www.smustard.com)

Kind regards,
Bob

I put .rb file to plugins directory? And how i enable it in SU?

@ehaflett said:

Smustard has a dashed lines ruby that works pretty well.

20$?? Is there any (other) free one?

Sorry, doublepost. Can't delete this.

@remus said:

If i understand you correctly, i reckon you want to unhide the roof and apply a dashed exture to it. You could quite easily make one yourself, or im sure there must be a few available on the internet somewhere.

I mean just boundaries. Not whole roof.

I have little problem and i need solution quickly, please. I hided roof from my model and now i should mark it as dashed lines, so how do that? Not whole roof, just boundaries. Help!

Sorry if i use some weird words.

So i have used this plug-in about day now, and makes cool render just pressing render button, but i wan't learn more about this. Where i could find tutorials about V-ray plug-in?

I got this V-ray render, makes great renders. But how i can make glass effect to any object?